is a ward

Wards of Japan

A is a subdivision of one of the cities of Japan that is large enough to have been designated by government ordinance. Wards are used to subdivide each city designated by government ordinance...

 located in Sendai

Sendai, Miyagi

is the capital city of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, and the largest city in the Tōhoku Region. In 2005, the city had a population of one million, and was one of Japan's 19 designated cities...

 in Miyagi

Miyagi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai.- History :Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

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As of 2005, the ward has an estimated population

Population

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

 of 130,478 and the density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 of 2609.56 persons per km². The total area is 50 km². In the aftermath of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

The 2011 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, also known as the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, or the Great East Japan Earthquake, was a magnitude 9.0 undersea megathrust earthquake off the coast of Japan that occurred at 14:46 JST on Friday, 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately east...

, the area was severely damaged, especially in Arahama district, where almost all 2,700 houses were destroyed and swept away by tsunami

Tsunami

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean or a large lake...

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Train stations

• Sendai Subway
  Sendai Subway
  The consists of a single line, the Nanboku Line, which opened in 1987. Construction of a second line, the Tōzai Line, began in 2004 with a planned opening date of 2015...
  
  
  • Nanboku Line: Atagobashi
    Atagobashi Station
    is a station on the Sendai Subway Nanboku Line in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.-Surrounding area:* National Highway 4* Atagobashi Bridge* Atagobashi Shrine...
    
     - Kawaramachi
    Kawaramachi Station (Miyagi)
    is a station on the Sendai Subway Nanboku Line in Wakabayashi-ku, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.-Surrounding area:*National Highway 4*Miyazawa Bridge*Kawaramachi Shopping District...
    
    

Highways

• East Sendai Expressway (no exits)
• South Sendai Expressway (no exits)
• Route 4
  Route 4 (Japan)
  National Route 4 is a major highway in eastern Honshū, Japan. The longest of the ordinary highways in Japan, it originates in Chūō, Tokyo and stretches north for 743.6 km to the city of Aomori in Aomori Prefecture. From Saitama Prefecture to Iwate Prefecture, it parallels the Tōhoku...
  
  

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